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  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Neuroscience
  • Memory Studies

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  • Episodic retrieval supports divergent thinking, enabling creative information combination.
  • Constructive memory processes, while beneficial, can lead to memory errors.
  • Creative thinking encompasses divergent (idea generation) and convergent (problem-solving) abilities.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the relationship between creative thinking (divergent and convergent) and false memory generation.
  • To explore how individual differences in creative thinking predict memory errors.
  • To understand the role of constructive memory in linking creativity and false memories.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized an individual differences approach across two experiments.
  • Employed the Deese-Roediger-McDermott (DRM) paradigm to assess false memory.
  • Measured both false recognition and false recall performance.

Main Results:

  • Convergent thinking performance predicted false recognition, replicating prior findings.
  • Divergent thinking performance also predicted false recognition (novel finding).
  • Divergent thinking performance predicted false recall in the second experiment.

Conclusions:

  • Constructive memory processes appear to link creative thinking abilities with the propensity for memory errors.
  • Both divergent and convergent thinking are associated with false memory generation.
  • Understanding these links offers insights into memory fallibility and creativity.